my quest to become a stuntman

[old.ignus]

After mastering the art of falling down, today I threw myself off a pier then climbed back up the support structure cliffhanger style, getting past the overhang of the deck was a bitch, much to the delight of onlookers who cheered.
May not sound much but you try doing it in todays wind.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Whats your craziest stunt without the aid of proffesional equipment?

 

[xenon2000]

Hanging upside down from the rails off a second-story balcony (on a school trip to France years ago) then almost falling. I flipped over and ended up hanging by one arm with my wrist digging into the concrete edge. I got a bollocking afterwards

 

[L_Plates]

absailing down a 40 foot story water tower without having any lessons.. yes i told them i had but they soon they realised i was lying and got banned from the venue!!

 

[Summo]

As a youngster I used to go BMXing at a disused quarry with me mates. In an effort to impress the big boys I cycled up the gradual incline to them while they were at the top of the highest, steepest drop and casually asked "Are you going?" before cycling past them and straight over the edge. I'd never been up there before and I've never been so frightened as I free-fell 25-30ft facing the ground before my wheels made contact and I rolled and skidded into an eventual stop in some rough scrub. I never found out whether they were impressed or not.

On holiday in Greece a few years ago with me mates we'd spent the day dune-jumping. We had dinner and several shots of Ouzo at a nearby taverna and I decided to climb onto the roof and jump onto the dunes below. I lept off towards the rear of the restaurant where I discovered there where no dunes, just a steep, rocky drop into a river. That hurt.

More recently (last week, in fact) my friend and I were driving our new MX-5s* I was in his passenger seat as we drove across Bodmin Moor with the roof down at about 20mph. We passed some sheep so I stood up and threw myself out in their direction. It hurts a lot more than on the tele and I ended up twisting my ankle (not seriously) and rolling for far too long. He then reversed into me. FUN!





*I forgot to mention before that one of the people I went to Cornwall with last week had also just bought a Mazda MX-5 and we took them both. His is that crappy, sicky bronze colour, though. Heh. It was great fun.

 

[Testin da Cable]

once after an evening of 'fun' I thought it would be cool to cartweel down a smallish hill's grassy slope. little did I know there was a concrete ditch halfway down into which I fell :/

ouchie heh

 

[xenon2000]

LOL Someguy!

 

[S-Gray]

you old guys know how to tell funny stories

 

[Stazbumpa]

I was BMXing in a totally not BMX type place ie: an outdoor pool of sorts called the "Sunshine Pool" because it spells "Sunshine" when veiwed from the air. Anyway, I was cycling about and managed to not look where I was going and my front wheel went into the stick of the "h" and sent me over the handlebars.

The damage to my face was superficial, but looked far, far worse than it actually was. I didn't get upset about it until my mum announced that I'd have to go to hospital and I thought I'd miss The Jungle Book, which was on at the cinema.
(fuck off, I was 7 years old)

 

[Hashmonster]

Originally posted by SomeGuy
I lept off towards the rear of the restaurant where I discovered there where no dunes, just a steep, rocky drop into a river. That hurt.

heheh

I did what most people do and try to be flash by jumping off a swing at high altitude, i failed takeoff and landed body first - broke my left arm and fractured my right

 

[Scouse]

LOL Nice one someguy...

Best stunt?? I used to do a lot of canoeing - was going on a little sea trip around the cliffs of south stack in Angelsey.

We stopped off at one of the rock outcrops and found a nice place to go cliff jumping from - about 50 ft into some reasonably deep water.

Got bored jumping off - so I took my boat up, strapped myself in and seal-launched off the cliff, narrowly missing a couple of friends at the bottom (who steadfastly refused to get out of the way because they didn't believe I'd do it).

The boat and I went about six feet under before popping back out of the water, jumping about 3-4 foot in the air before coming to a standsill



Nowadays I'm so fucking fat that I doubt I'd fit in it - the perils of computer gaming I suppose...

 

[suicide121]

ROFL that must be incredible,head first into water with a canoe

 

[Fex]

/me waits for Damini's amusing contribution

 

[Skyler]

Well I never did many stunt things, but I do remember years ago I used to ride everywhere on my mountain bike with no hands. We found this 30 degree steep road leading up to a church round here, so we rode up there and sped down it. Around the midpoint there is an alleyway where people usually cross the road from and its a blind spot as far as speeding down the hill goes....

About the 5th time we went down there I let go of handle bars about 1/3 the way down just before the alleyway, I start leaning and turning the corner at about 50mph or something and see this old woman in a mechanical vehicle crossing the road right in my path. I swerved and avoided her and kept going just, but it was hair raising

 

[old.Kez]

Thats so boring, Sky

 

[Hashmonster]

Originally posted by Scouse
The boat and I went about six feet under before popping back out of the water, jumping about 3-4 foot in the air before coming to a standsill

heheh narly dude!

 

[Sar]

Originally posted by Kez
Thats so boring, Sky

Whereas your contribution was just so utterly captivating.

 

[mr.Blacky]

ssssshhhhhhhhhh thats too obvious

 

[xenon2000]

The most stunt-like thing Kez has ever done is start an internet flamewar

 

[old.Dr-Gonzo]

we were out in a mates boat (20ft phantom capable of 85mph) and were blatting along poole beach at about 35-40mph to warm up the engine so we could do some water skiing.

Now, some fools in 'daddys boat' decided that they would pull out in front of us, leaving as big a wake as they possibly could.

This had the effect of making one damned huge jump for the boat to rocket up. We got air, lots of it, and headed towards the heavens. Now as everything that goes up must come down, we started to hurtle towards the sea. As we were, the boat twisted 90 degrees to the left so the side was coming down first.

I had my head shoved in the water, hit the side of the boat at some considerable force and had the driver land on top of me. This resulted in serveral nasty bruises and 3 rotated vertebrae which still give me trouble today.

The owner who was sitting in the back at the time managed to get 3 crushed ribs and some nasty internal bruising from hitting the back of the seats at some force, even with his crash vest on.

The driver, not a scratch as he had the softest landing of them all (ME!) and was out in the boat the next day, whilst we were all curled up in some pain.

Still go out in the boat tho. to much of an adrenalin junky to let a little scratch like that put me off


/end mindless ramble

 

[Hashmonster]

feck! did u go after the guys who cut across u? that could've been a serious accident!

 

[old.Kez]

I wasn't aware I had to contribute something to forward my opinion, what an absurd age we're living in.

Its true that I don't recall any such stunts, but given that most of these occured by accident, I'll forgive you for thinking I'm going to put myself out to be clumsy or in an accident.

(I don't start flame "wars" - everyone else does, by disagreeing)

 

[xane]

Well, every single night I have to go into the loft to use the computer - and go back down again, on my own too

 

[old.Fweddy]

Originally posted by ignus
Whats your craziest stunt without the aid of proffesional equipment?

I once boiled an egg.

 

[Damini]

Originally posted by Aph3x
/me waits for Damini's amusing contribution

Heh, nah, I'm not really a stunt grrleh. I did abseiling, but that was covered from head to toe in protective gear, and with an instructer hollering at me, and it was exceptionally uncool in the way I kept on hitting the wall and squeeling. I tried that bouncing style thing rather than the walking, and just turned myself into a human wrecking ball. I'm not great at this co-ordination lark.

I jumped out of a moving car too. When I was seven. I wanted to be like the A-Team. But mum ran over my foot and my nose bled, so I blamed it on a faulty child lock and subsequently spent my formative years secured like a mental patient in the back seat of cars.

About 2 years back I got stuck up a tree when drunk?

Horizontal bungee jumping is about my excitement limit. And before the euphanisms kick in, its a drunken sport we invented at uni involving some very thick elastic I "acquired", some bushes, and running very fast in a direction before getting yanked backwards.

I'd probably be more adventurous, but I'm nastily aware of my luck, and my inability to master control over my limbs. I tried to use a pay phone whilst on roller skates and gave myself concussion. I don't think parachuting or jumping over burning buses on a scooter is really an intelligent move for me.

 

[old.Dr-Gonzo]

Originally posted by Hashmonster
feck! did u go after the guys who cut across u? that could've been a serious accident!

we would of were i able to move and if paul was not screaming his head off because he could not breath.

We had the coastgaurd and police launch out, ambulance at the ferry. all this and we were only about 30yards off Shore road beach in poole.


Hmmmm such is life.

although i have now mastered the art of allowing myself to be ripped out of the waterski's whilst travelling at speed and not letting go of the tow rope. I bounce off the water quite well

 

[~Lazarus~]

 

[Testin da Cable]

while out on my mtb in the woods today I had an interesting experience that almost included my castration via upthrust pointy wooden thing.
luckily I managed to get my scrot to miss the sawn-off treetrunk [that I could barely see due to foliage obscuring my vision] by radically twisting the bike around. sadly this caused me to somehow catch my left spd on aforementioned woody thing making the bike spin about 270deg to the left and pitching me into the bushes.

gotta love it

 

[pocketyoda]

Lee Majors eat your heart out.

 

[Summo]

Quality pic, Laz.

 

[old.charliealpha]

I once jumped out of a tree using only a tesco carrier bag and some twine as a parachute. Jumped off a high branch (must been about 20ft) needless to say the 'parachute' didnt work and I promptly fell to earth breaking my left leg and seriously brusing my left arm as I landed.